Our Federal Court upholding a decision to allow local governments to seize property is...
posted by Heather @ 10:02 AM
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posted by Heather @ 10:02 AM
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...ludicrous, immoral, un-American, without merit, scandalous, preposterous, atrocious, loathsome, iniquitous, repugnant, sinful, villainous, and pernicious...
...and lots of other stuff, too!
just the gov't doing what it does best....
... just run of the mill freedom snatching anymore. They can track us, watch us without notification and are working to turn our society into that of Orwell's 1984. Seizing property is only one more stone in the path.
the thing is the gov't has always had the right to sieze land (as long as there was "just compensation"). they call it the right of imanent domain...what makes this so nasty is the reasons being used to justify the siezure---economic development...don't revolutions happen for this kind of abuse of power?
One of our IT guys told me this story this morning:
His brother-in-law bought a restaurant using his life savings. He loved his restaurant, and people loved eating at his restaurant. Then our local government decided they needed the property under his restaurant, so they seized the property and gave him "fair market value" for the land. He appealed this decision and lost his case. Before the restaurant he had spent over twenty years saving pennies towards his dream. After the restaurant he was $80K in debt because he only received $60K for the land, which didn't begin to cover the $140K loan. So now, life savings lost, $80K in debt, he sets up a camera in his restaurant and asks that the film be sent to the judge and the local news station - the film of his suicide inside the restaurant.
It's sick, but I have to tell you: I can understand and empathize with what the man must have been feeling. Getting ahead has become a fairytale, and just keeping your head above water the new American dream. So when you finally feel like you've carved just a tiny spot - just a nook - out in the world, where you can live...it's gotta be the most desperate, hopeless feeling when someone takes that from you.
omg... it's sad to hear of such tales.
the opposite of what the constitution promises.
Good point. I just don't relate to that part of being an American. Those things are not what I attribute to "American". The attributes I conjur as "American" are: fair, equal, logical, just.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, I am not saying that's the reality. I'm saying that I become very uppity and finger-pointy and get that look of disdain whenever I hear or read about laws or statutes or policy changes which seem to undermine those attributes.
That's what I'm feeling now. Disgust for the lack of logic that says the government can simply decide it wants your property and there's nothing you can do; AND, that government being the United States government. Makes me want to hurl.
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